The boys behind Daft Punk move into experimental art house cinema with this their directorial debut about two robots (oh yes) on a quest to become human. An intriguing, though perhaps not entirely successful, labour of love that, though with a frustratingly small amount of their own fine music, boasts an excellent soundtrack from Mayfield, Eno, Haydn and Chopin. A cinematographically beautiful midnight movie. find out more...

At the edge of the vast Mauritanian desert lies the small coastal town of Nouadhibou, there seventeen-year-old Abdallah is visiting his mother before emigrating to Europe. This melancholic young man finds himself a stranger in his own country, unable to speak the local language he shies away from village customs and festivities. Yet, despite himself, Abdallah does become involved in the lives of the inhabitants of this unfamiliar world; the sorrowful but sensual young woman Nana, the aged handym find out more...